Revised Code of Washington

Wash. Rev. Code § 74.08.050 (2026)

Applications for grants

✓ current as of May 2026

Find cases: SyfertCases citing this section WA-LEGapp.leg.wa.gov JustiaTitle on Justia CornellLII Search CasesGoogle Scholar

Application for a grant in any category of public assistance shall be made to the county office by the applicant or by another on his or her behalf, and shall be reduced to writing upon standard forms prescribed by the department, and a written acknowledgment of receipt of the application by the department shall be given to each applicant at the time of making application.

[ 2013 c 23 s 198; 1971 ex.s. c 169 s 3; 1959 c 26 s 74.08.050. Prior: 1953 c 174 s 26; 1949 c 6 s 6; Rem. Supp. 1949 s 9998-33f.]

Notes of Decisions

Cited in 2 cases, 1970–1976 · leading case: State Ex Rel. Tarver v. Smith, 470 P.2d 172 (Wash. 1970).

Sort: Relevance Newest Treatment

State Ex Rel. Tarver v. Smith, 470 P.2d 172 (Wash. 1970). “RCW 74.08.050, 74.08.055 and 74.08.060 prescribe the procedures for applying for and receiving public assistance, and RCW 74.”

State v. Bailey, 544 P.2d 778 (Wash. Ct. App. 1976). “In addition, Bailey was not an applicant for an immediate grant of general assistance, but for a grant of assistance under RCW 74.08.050, and the prosecutor therefore had no discretion to charge him with a gross misdemeanor under RCW 74.”

Annotations are extracted automatically from the opinions in the Syfert caselaw corpus and ranked by authority, recency, and treatment. Dots show Syfertize treatment of the citing case itself.